September 2008 Wdc Dg Hannah's News Bytes

WDC Delta Gamma Alumnae Chapter September 2008 Happenings this Month September – Fall Kickoff, “Champagne Brunch” Join your fellow Delta Gammas for WDC DG’s annual and most popular event. The champagne brunch is the perfect opportunity to see old friends and reconnect with the alumnae chapter. We’ll also introduce you to other DGs that are new to the DC area or to WDC DG. We hope you can join us to find out what’s in store for the chapter this fall! Date: Saturday, September 27 at 11:30 am Location: The home of Jennifer Middleton, 4425 Yuma St, NW, Washington, DC 20016 (Tenleytown Metro). There is also plenty of free street parking. Cost: Free! Food donations are welcome and appreciated. For directions, more information, to contribute, or RSVP, contact Danielle Yates at [email protected]. New Officers and Coordinators New member Amanda Haff our new Awards Chairman, as Alison Fraiser moved to Germany this summer. Welcome Amanda! We also have some new SIG Coordinators. Tracey Yost and April Black are the new cocoordinators for our DG Dine Out SIG. And, Katie Novaria is our new DGs in DC! Coordinator. A big thank you to Emily Clark (former Dine Out Coordinator) and Danielle Frottier (former DGs in DC! Coordinator). You ladies did an outstanding job as coordinators!! Special Interest Groups Book Club: Let’s share some of those fun summer reads as Book Club on Wednesday, September 10 at 7:30 at the home of Tonya Richardson in Bethesda (metro accessible). For more information and/or to RSVP, please contact Danielle Frottier at [email protected] DG Dine Out: DG Dineout is happy to announce that Tracey Yost and April Black will be cocoordinating future Dineout events! Please mark your calendars for a DG Dineout event on Monday, September 15. Metro accessible location will be announced soon via e-mail! To be added to the Dineout list, please e-mail [email protected].

DGs in DC!: Join your sisters as we take a tour of the Kalorama House and an Embassy Tour. Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 21 and it will begin at the Woodrow Wilson House. Tickets are $25 if purchased in advance. If we have a group of 10 or more DGs and their friends, tickets are reduced to $20. Here is a link to give you a little bit of background on the tour. http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/index.asp?section=calendar&file=calendar& ID=11

For more information and/or to RSVP, contact Katie Novaria at [email protected] Wine Tasting: Why? It's back to wine time! Come kick-back after work with your DC DG girls for a Wine Happy Hour on Tuesday, September 23. Cork has a variety of wines by the glass and inexpensive small plates to nibble on and share. Plus, Cork's staff has a great reputation for being oh-so knowledgeable about wine, so we might learn a thing or two. For more information, please contact Meredith at [email protected] Advisors needed for Beta Sigma, University of MD What a great way to get involved and guide our collegians of Beta Sigma. Interested Alumnae should contact Carrie Gray, Region 2 Director, or Jen Schwartz, RAS, for more info on serving as an Advisor to Beta Sigma. Carrie’s email is: [email protected] Jen can be contacted at [email protected] or via cell at 202.841.7223. Foundation Opportunities Interested in volunteer opportunities around the Washington, DC metro area? A monthly update on various opportunities with various levels of time commitment is being developed. Many of these opportunities will be Service for Sight based, but some will be outside that area. This will give members interested in community involvement an opportunity to find a sister to do volunteer work with. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Jen at [email protected]. The Prevention of Blindness Society of the Metropolitan Washington (POB) is hosting an

American Girl Fashion Show on November 15 and 16 to raise funds and awareness for its sightsaving programs. This project requires many volunteers to be successful. We are writing to your organization to see if you and your members would be able to support POB by volunteering service hours. There will be four shows over two days with 50 models per show between the ages of 6-10 years. The fashion shows will be at the Inn at Brookeville in Brookeville, MD. Some volunteer positions include model assistants, greeters and hostesses. Founded in 1936, the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington, the largest local prevention of blindness agency in the United States, is dedicated to the improvement and preservation of sight by providing services, education, advocacy and innovation. POB screens more than 7,500 children annually for vision loss and strabismus and 5,000 adults for glaucoma, and provides nearly 4,500 new eyeglasses to low-income and homeless persons at its clinic. POB also sponsors the Aging Eye Network, Macular Degeneration Network and Stargardt’s Network. Please visit www.youreyes.org for a more detailed description of our services. For more information or to volunteer for this event, please contact Jen at [email protected] New Groups WDC will start a WDC Lunch Bunch this fall. This group is for all of sisters for a casual, social and informational lunch. The first lunch will be in October. When: October 8 at 11:30 am Where: The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown For more information, please contact Helen at [email protected] DG Gossip! Susanne Fitch and family welcomed Josephine Anne Fitch into her family on August 18. Mommy and Josephine are doing well.

Dues - It’s That Time Again! As mentioned in last month’s newsletter, DG increased alumnae dues from $19 to $20.50 to help fund the numerous items it provides such as ANCHORA magazine, deltagamma.org, Convention, recruitment, expansion, support of regional teams, and much more. In addition, this month every alumnae will receive an invoice from Delta Gamma Fraternity allowing them to pay their dues directly to EO. However, we would like to make this process as convenient as possible for our members, so you are still able to pay both your Delta Gamma Fraternity dues and your alumni chapter dues at the same time. WDC will then take responsibility for sending your $20.50 to EO. So, if you receive your invoice from EO but have already paid your dues to our chapter for this fiscal year, please disregard the invoice from EO. Thank you for contributions. Your dues are critical to the success of our chapter.

We look forward to seeing you at our Kick-Off in September!